Florida Keys Reef Visual Census 1994

Jerald Ault1, Jim Bohnsack2, Abigail Benson3, Abigail Benson4, Mathew Biddle5

1 University of Miami, Rosenstiel School of Marine & Atmospheric Science, ; 2 National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, Southeast Fisheries Science Center, ; 3 U.S. Geological Survey, ; 4 ; 5 United States Marine Biodiversity Observation Network (US MBON), 1315 East-West Highway, 20910, Silver Spring, United States

Corresponding author(s): Jerald Ault (jault@rsmas.miami.edu)Jim Bohnsack (Jim.Bohnsack@noaa.gov), Abigail Benson (albenson@usgs.gov)

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Resource Citation

South Florida Reef Visual Census; https://grunt.sefsc.noaa.gov/rvc_analysis20/samples/index

Abstract

These data are reef fish observations from surveys conducted in the Florida Keys in 1994.  These surveys were part of the developmental years of what became the Reef Visual Census, described in the project metadata, Bohnsack et al. 1999 and Smith et al. 2011

Keywords: Samplingevent, Occurrence, CORAL REEF; FISH; FLORIDA KEYS; IOOS; National Oceanic & Atmospheric Administration, Observation

General description

Purpose: In 1998, the Florida Fish and Wildlife Conservation Commission's (FWC) Fisheries Independent Monitoring (FIM) program began a long-term monitoring effort of key reef fish populations in the Florida Keys National Marine Sanctuary. This effort was aimed at evaluating the relative abundance, size structure, and habitat utilization of specific reef fish species that are targeted by commercial and recreational fisheries.
Additional information: marine, harvest by iOBIS

Project details

Project title: South Florida National Coral Reef Monitoring Program
Personnel: Jeremiah Blondeau
Funding: National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA)
Study area descriptions/descriptor: Florida Keys, Dry Tortugas and Southeast Florida

Data published through GBIF: https://ipt-obis.gbif.us/resource?r=floridakeysreefvisualcensus1994

Taxonomic coverage

General taxonomic coverage description: Reef fish, i.e. limbless cold-blooded vertebrate animal with gills and fins and living wholly in water and near coral reefs.
Taxonomic ranks
Class: Teleostei
Subclass: Elasmobranchii
Common names: Teleosts, Elasmobranchs

Spatial coverage

General spatial coverage: Florida Keys National Marine Sanctuary, Florida
Coordinates: 24°26'34.8''N and 25°41'34.8''N Latitude; 81°58'37.2''W and 80°5'20.4''W Longitude 

Temporal coverage: April 18, 1994 - October 21, 1994

Methods

Method step description: 

Datasets

Dataset description
Object name: Darwin Core Archive Florida Keys Reef Visual Census 1994
Character encoding: UTF-8
Format name: Darwin Core Archive format
Format version: 1.0
Distribution: https://ipt-obis.gbif.us/archive.do?r=floridakeysreefvisualcensus1994
Publication date of data: 2023-03-29
Language: English
Licences of use: Public Domain (CC0 1.0)

Metadata language: English
Date of metadata creation: 2017-08-03
Hierarchy level: Dataset

References
Smith, S.G., et al. 2011, Multispecies survey design for assessing reef-fish stocks, spatially explicit management performance, and ecosystem condition. Fisheries Research 109(2011)25-41 https://doi.org/10.1016/j.fishres.2011.01.012
Brandt, M. E., et. al. 2009, A Cooperative Multi-agency Reef Fish Monitoring Protocol for the Florida Keys Coral Reef Ecosystem. Retrieve from http://www.coris.noaa.gov/activities/fish_monitoring_protocol/
Bohnsack, J.A., McClellan, D.B., Harper, D.E., Davenport, G.S., Konoval, G.J., Eklund, A.M., Contillo, J.P., Bolden, S.K., Fischel, P.C., Sandorf, G.S., Javech, J.C., White, M.W., Pickett, M.H., Hulsbeck, M.W., Tobias, J.L., Ault, J.S., Meester, G.A., Smith, S.G., Luo., J., 1999. Baseline data for evaluating reef fish populations in the Florida Keys. NOAA Tech. Memo. NMFS-SEFSC-427. https://repository.library.noaa.gov/view/noaa/30889